The original sentence that started this is
The following list are the x86 operating systems supported by
from twickline_at_skybest.com http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0356.html He claims he knows 3 types of slang, and is from west virginia, but he never claimed to be "A native english speaker", so you don't have (Such a big) reason to be bothered. I was the first to claim a native english speaker (As far as I know) and I have tried explaining to Tom that there is a thing called grammar, but he had a few problems understanding that. "The list is current as of XX/XX/XXXX" is a solution that should make everybody happy.
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
The original sentence that started this is
The following list are the x86 operating systems supported by
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"The list is current as of XX/XX/XXXX" is a solution that should make everybody happy.
Not really because as the above clearly illustrates, this is not what the original sentence said or meant to say. I really don't know why everyone focused on this 'up-to-date' thing.
*Sigh*
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